Sunday, June 19, 2011

Say you hoped to tame somethingwild and stayedcalm and inched upday by day. Or evennot tame it butmeet it halfway.Things went along.You made progress,understandingit would be a lengthy process,sensing changesin your hair andnails. So it's strange when itattacks: you thoughtyou had a deal.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

in time of daffodils(who knowthe goal of living is to grow)forgetting why,remember howin time of lilacs who proclaimthe aim of waking is to dream,remember so(forgetting seem)in time of roses(who amazeour now and here with paradise)forgetting it,remembering yesin time of all sweet things beyondwhatever mind may comprehend,remember seek(forgetting find)and in a mystery to be(when time from time shall set us free)forgetting me,remembering me

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Glasgow-based artist Karla Black is known for her sprawling floor-based and hanging sculptures that comprise diverse materials such as plaster, vaseline, acrylic paint, lipstick, nail polish and body lotion.

"Black chooses her media for their tactile aesthetic appeal: the familiarity of the texture of cellophane or the scent of cosmetics bridges the experience of tangible matter with the intimacy of memory or the subconscious. Black's process is intensely physical and this energy is conveyed through ther work's impromptu staging; this suggestion of performance psychologically involves the viewer with the making process, provoking instinctive responses to her precarious assemblages" saatchi gallery UK